Central African Republic ambassador appeals for continued international help
This week’s killing of 34 civilians – including two aged nuns – in the Central African Republic underlines the need properly to implement the three-month
This week’s killing of 34 civilians – including two aged nuns – in the Central African Republic underlines the need properly to implement the three-month
The war-drained population of the Central African Republic has yet to feel the dividend from the tenuous peace deal signed last February. The chief representative
The fragile peace in the Central African Republic is unravelling. Less than a month after it was signed, one of the 14 parties has quit
Resurging violence in the Central African Republic has caused more than 100 000 people to leave their houses. The fighting between Muslim ex-Seleka militia and
South Africa and the Central African Republic have agreed to broaden their economic, social and political cooperation. However, renewing military ties which ended tragically for
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon has expressed deep concern at violence in the Central African Republic that’s left at least 86 people dead. Two
France’s Defence Minister announces an end to the tricolors three-year military peacekeeping mission in Central African Republic. He says France will closely follow developments where
Humanitarian workers in the Central African Republic have suspended relief operations amid renewed fighting by militia groups that’s putting thousands at risk. Renewed deadly violence
A medical watchdog and activist group warns that globally agreed goals to curb the HIV epidemic by 2020 will not be met unless the HIV
The United Nations is investigating what it calls extremely troubling new allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse by peacekeepers in the Central African Republic. It
Jean-Jacques Cornish is a journalist and broadcaster who has been involved in the media all his adult life.
Starting as a reporter on his hometown newspaper, he moved briefly to then Rhodesia before returning to South Africa to become a parliamentary correspondent with the South African Press Association. He was sent to London as Sapa’s London editor and also served as special correspondent to the United Nations. He joined the then Argus group in London as political correspondent.
Returning to South Africa after 12 years abroad, he was assistant editor on the Pretoria News for a decade before becoming editor of the Star and SA Times for five years.
Since 1999 he’s been an independent journalist writing and broadcasting – mainly about Africa – for Talk Radio 702 and 567 Cape Talk, Radio France International, PressTV, Radio Live New Zealand, Business Day, Mail & Guardian, the BBC, Agence France Press, Business in Africa, Leadership, India Today, the South African Institute for International Affairs and the Institute for Security Studies.
He has hosted current affairs talk shows on Talk Radio 702 and 567 Cape Talk. He appears as an African affairs pundit on SABC Africa and CNBC Africa.
He lectured in contemporary studies to journalism students at the Tshwane University of Technology and the University of Pretoria.
He speaks on African affairs to corporate and other audiences.
He has been officially invited as a journalist to more than 30 countries. He was the winner of the 2007 SADC award for radio journalism.
He’s been a member of the EISA team observing elections in Somaliland, Democratic Republic of Congo, Madagascar, Zimbabwe, Egypt and Tunsiai.
In October 2009 he headed a group of 39 African journalists to the 60th anniversary celebrations of the Peoples’ Republic of China.
In January 2010 he joined a rescue and paramedical team to earthquake struck Haiti.
He is immediate past president of the Alliance Francaise of Pretoria.
Jean-Jacques is a director of Giant Media. The company was given access to Nelson Mandela in his retirement years until 2009.
He is co-producer of the hour-long documentary Mandela at 90 that was broadcast on BBC in January 2009.
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